If you grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, you got Googied. Not Googled. Googied. It was inescapable.

Googie is a design, an architecture, a mind set that somehow the space age would be, well, spaced out. Its fluid look screamed, "The future has landed, and it's friendly."

Googie's wildly whimsical signs and crazy buildings that looked like flying saucers all were designed for one purpose: Pull over, stop your car, come in and buy a hot dog or something."

The first Googie (late in the 1940s) was a wildly dramatic coffeehouse called, surprise, Googie at 1949 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Television, always techno-futuristic, gave us the "Jetsons" cartoon where people lived in bubble houses and drove rockets to work. The Jetson family is credited with propelling Googie-think into the Sputnik Generation.

Googie roofs are a sweeping motion, similar to the snow drift over Stark County District Library downtown. There are starbursts, fireworks and strange windows.